Pat Ward
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Pat Ward is the Iowa State Senator from the 30th District. A Republican
Republican Party of Iowa
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, she has served in the Iowa Senate
Iowa Senate
The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly. There are 50 members of the Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state with populations of approximately 59,500 per constituency. Each Senate district is composed of two House districts...

 since 2004, when she won a special election to fill the vacancy left when Mary Kramer was appointed to be U.S. Ambassador to Barbados
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. http://www.uni.edu/govrel/archive03.shtml She has a B.S. in Business and Legal Studies from Central Missouri State University
University of Central Missouri
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Ward currently serves on several committees in the Iowa Senate - the Commerce committee; the Environment and Energy Independence; the Judiciary committee; the Ways and Means committee; the Government Oversight committee, where she is the ranking member
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; and the Labor and Business Relations committee, where she is the ranking member.

Ward was last re-elected in 2008 with 21,842 votes, running unopposed. http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/2008/OfficialCanvass2008General.pdf

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